EK500 Water Column Sonar Data Collected During AL0105

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Ecosystem Monitoring (AL0105, EK500). The Ecosystem Monitoring (aka Ecomon) survery uses bongo and CTD sampling to monitor and map the distribution of zooplankton, krill and smaller organisms) and the physical environment. The survey has been conducted four times per year (although fewer times in recent years) in each season on the continental shelf from Cape Hatteras, NC to the Canadian waters of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Acoustic data are occasionally collected. Marine mammal and bird observations have been collected in the past.

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describedByType	application/octet-steam
identifier	gov.noaa.ngdc.mgg.wcd:AL0105_EK500
issued	2015-12-01T00:00:00.000+00:00
language	[]
rights	otherRestrictions, otherRestrictions
spatial	-69.504,36.2177729828388,-76.3417951432716,41.547
temporal	2001-05-07T00:00:00+00:00/2001-05-25T00:00:00+00:00

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